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Closing with a tournament-best-tying final-round 65, Park caught and passed 54-hole co-leaders Jin Young Ko and Teresa Lu to secure her first Ricoh Women's British Open at Turnberry in Scotland. It's the seventh major title for Park, who has won six of her seven majors in her last 14 major starts. That's a whopping 43 percent clip.

Park, who won the first three majors of 2013, has now won two in '15, including the first-ever Women's PGA Championship.

Late in the round, J.Y. Ko appeared to have a good chance to win in her first-ever major start, but her approach to the 16th found a water hazard and led to a double-bogey 6. Ko secured solo second with a lengthy two-putt par at the finishing hole.

So Yeon Ryu and Lydia Ko shared third place at 8 under par. At one point in the round, Ko had pulled within a shot of the lead. However, when she found herself bunkered at the 12th, she was left without much chance. The resulting double bogey cost her a chance to become the youngest major champion.

GAINESVILLE, Va. -- Tiger Woods is not going to win the Quicken Loans National. However, all is not lost.

Woods can make progress in prolonging his season with an aggressive, well-played final round at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club. The world No. 266 sits nine shots behind 54-hole leaders Troy Merritt and Kevin Chappell, but his target is the top 10. Tied for 42nd place, Woods is six shots below that water mark. Why the top 10? That's a borderline must for Woods to have even a chance to sneak into the FedEx Cup playoffs and avoid missing the PGA Tour's postseason for the third time in five seasons.

Entering this week, Woods was 315 points out of 125th place and the final qualifying spot. Winners of PGA Tour events get 500 points for each victory, with points awarded to every player who makes the cut. If Woods finishes in the top 10 on Sunday, he'll snag somewhere in the area of 75 points, still leaving him well outside of the playoffs.

BLAINE, Minn. -- Saturday at the 3M Championship is a special day. It's the day fans get to make memories for a lifetime.

The names Nicklaus, Player and Trevino are that of legend, great players of the past that once ruled the PGA Tour. Unfortunately, by the time the 1980s rolled around, when I was born, their best golf was already behind them, save for Nicklaus' fantastic week at Augusta in 1986.

Since 2005, however, on 3M Championship Saturday, the past has come alive. The greats of the game, those past not only their PGA Tour prime, but their Champions Tour prime, put on a show for the golf fans in Minnesota. With a scramble format and a laid-back atmosphere, there’s plenty of room for banter among the players and healthy back-and-forth with the fans.

BLAINE, Minn. -- The year was 2011 and the loyal fans that attend the 3M Championship on an annual basis were finally able to show their appreciation for the “hometown kid” in person.

Though eligible to play the 3M Championship since 2009, Tom Lehman, like many top PGA Tour professionals before him, still had some life in his game at the age of 50 -- enough to linger on the PGA Tour past the half-century mark. His refusal to give up on the PGA Tour and a hectic schedule made it nearly impossible to get back to the 3M Championship for his first couple of years on the Champions Tour, but when he finally got his chance to pay-back the golf fans of Minnesota, he didn’t disappoint.

Lehman opened with a 65 in 2011 and though he played well throughout the week, he fell just short of Jay Haas, who simply was not to be denied that year. Those in attendance that year figured it was only a matter of time before Lehman captured this title, but, due in large part to illness the past two years here, it’s been largely a struggle for Lehman at the 3M Championship…until this year.

The father of PGA Tour player Billy Hurley III has been found in Texas after his family didn't know his whereabouts for more than nine days.

Willard Hurley Jr. was found "safe and sound" in the Lone Star state, according to Leesburg, Va., police. Someone recognized Hurley from news reports and notified police. Hurley declined to explain to officers why he had left home on July 19 in his truck with clothes and some cash.

Hurley was reported missing July 27, with his Naval Academy graduate son going public on Tuesday in hopes of identifying what happened to him.

"I'm just hoping that he goes to check my tee time or check my score and sees this and understands that dad, we love you and we want you to come home," Hurley said Tuesday.

Hurley will make the cut at the Quicken Loans National at 2-under 140.

Most no one expected this. Tiger Woods is in contention to win again on the PGA Tour.

Woods shot 5-under 66, tying his low round of the year and setting his best mark in relationship to par, to get into contention at his Quicken Loans National at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Va.

The 14-time major winner started his Friday round on the 10th hole, where Woods started a run of four consecutive birdies on Thursday to complete the comeback from a hideous 3-over-through-four start. He wasn't able to capitalize like the day prior, but got off to his now typical slow start, sprinkling in a bogey at the par-5 14th after Woods barely got off the tee following a near whiff with his tee shot. However, Woods again rallied quickly, sticking his approach to the 15th to 3 feet for an easy birdie. Woods played an efficient 18th, leading to a 10-foot birdie to turn under par.

From there, Woods was all systems go. He stuck it close at the first and drained a 20-foot birdie at the fourth, both holes he bogeyed on Thursday. He again birdied both front-nine par 5s, with the second being his last birdie to round out the 66.

GAINESVILLE, Va. -- Through four holes, it was looking like another reprisal of the Passion of Tiger. Snap-hook and a bogey on the first hole. A short-side miss from the fairway leading to a second bogey at the third. Another dropped shot at the fourth.

At 3 over through four holes, it seemed Woods was a few more bad ones away from indifference, the subsequent reemergence of the chipping yips and then a post-round head-hanging explanation of what went wrong -- again.

That's not what happened.

Instead, Woods somewhat surprisingly rallied to shoot a 3-under 68 that has him in the top third of the field at the Quicken Loans National.

The 14-time major winner began the comeback with routine-looking birdies on the two par 5s on the front nine at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, completing the opening half with a par at the ninth.

It was on the 10th tee where Woods started his rally. He his four consecutive approach shots inside 12 feet, making all four birdies putts to turn a 1-over round into a 3-under effort that had the weather-weakened crowd buzzing as though Tiger was actually back to his old self.

The brainchild of Billy Casper Golf, WLGO is a one-day, nationwide event which brings together four-player teams to enjoy a day of golf and raise money in support of Wounded Warrior Project. Some 140 courses, owned and operated by BCG, Troon Golf and Toll Golf, participate, offering a 9- or 18-hole round, cart, lunch and prizes, and includes a $10 per player donation to WWP.

Players do not need a USGA handicap to participate and can sign up as a single or part of a group of two or four. Over 8,100 players have signed up so far, with 500 wounded warriors among the entrants. In 2014, over 10,000 players participated.

All players are entered into a drawing to win a trip for four to the Nike headquarters in Oregon for custom club fitting. The highest fundraising team wins a trip for four to Kiawah Island, S.C., to play the Ocean Course at the resort which hosted the 2012 PGA Championship.

Rickie Fowler ended his first round at the Quicken Loans National on Thursday with a hole-in-one at the par-3 ninth at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club. Fowler used a 7-iron on the 200-yard downhill hole to make his second career PGA Tour ace and first since his pro debut at the Frys.com Open in 2009.